Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characteristic bright reds, blues, and golds of illuminated manuscripts, many of which illustrate typical Christmas scenes such as the nativity. One of the most noticeable of these is "A Booke of Christmas Carols" illuminated from ancient manuscripts in the British Museum. This was edited by Joseph Cundall in London...
...London of Dickens", Mr. Hersey, Emerson...
Thoughtfully picking his nose, Referee Jack Dempsey stood in the corner of a ring in Madison Square Garden while the announcer introduced two fighters. In this corner lantern-jawed Otto von Porat, Norwegian white hope. In this corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed clumsily for a round. In the second round von Porat hit the more agile Scott in the groin. Referee Dempsey helped Scott up and declared him the winner. From the ringside a reporter for the Norway Post, telephoning the sad news to his editor in Oslo, added the suggestion that...
...inference was confirmed by ships which are repairing the quake-broken trans-Atlantic cables. Their sonic soundings showed that the ocean floor had moved and shifted the fishing banks. Because of broken cables and congestion of the unimpaired ones it was quicker last week to send many messages from London to Montreal eastward-via India, Australia, Fanning Island, Vancouver...
...because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof was covered with sheets of lead. Eventually he escaped, with the help of a fellow-prisoner, by cutting a hole in the roof, then clambering down and into a window of the palace. He wandered to Paris, London, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Barcelona, always getting in trouble sooner or later over gambling, women, or trickery. In Vienna he was arrested by the Chastity Commissioners; in Paris he ran a state lottery; in Warsaw he fought a duel with Count Branicki; in Rome he was decorated by the Pope...